The Weekly Geek: A real life dream machine

One of the coolest geeky fantasy machines in the world is surely the concept of a “dream machine,” a device that can record your dreams so you can show them to others. Just imagine all the amazing possibilities (both incredible and insanely embarrassing).

Well, this is completely crazy, but the technology for this idea is actually becoming possible. According to a Gizmodo post

No way. I actually went and made sure the post wasn’t dated April 1. Sure enough, the sources check out — we’re actually at that point in neuroscience. Granted, this is early research, and an actual “dream machine” is a long, long way off, but this is fascinating any way you slice it.

It’s also potentially horrifying. Imagine how something like this could be used in an evil dystopian government, spying on its citizens’ thoughts. Or simply embarrassing! Remember that dream you had about your high school English teacher, a parakeet and a sauna? Yeah, that might not be so private anymore either.

We’re getting ahead of ourselves. For now, we salute the mad scientists at Berkeley who are making this happen.